Colloquium Details
Can we build a Europe-only cloud, and should we?
| Author: | John Crowcroft, FRS University of Cambridge |
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| Date: | April 21, 2015 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 101 Jacqua |
Abstract
Recent events in the Internet have caused alarm in parts of Europe, both amongst citizens and also in government circles. The Germans, amongst others, have proposed a BundesCloud (or more generally a local-only Cloud, and Internet).
In this talk, I will look at what legal and technical steps are necessary to implement such a thing, if at all possible, and how users would have assurance about its properties. I will also touch on whether (in the light of alternative approaches to privacy) it is really what is wanted.
Biography
Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. He has worked in the area of Internet support for multimedia communications for over 30 years. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic management, and the design of deployable end-to-end protocols. Current active research areas are Opportunistic Communications, Social Networks, and techniques and algorithms to scale infrastructure-free mobile systems. He leans towards a "build and learn" paradigm for research.
He graduated in Physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1979, gained an MSc in Computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from UCL. He is a Fellow the Royal Society, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
He likes teaching, and has published a few books based on learning materials.